The World Clock

We all have friends in differenct locations of the world. Here is a small tip to have the clocks of the worlds cities @ your desktop so you may call them for voice chat at the wrong time :) ...

1. Go to http://widgets.yahoo.com/, download and install it

2. You will find many useful widgets in the 'My Widgets' folder

3. To get the world clock showing different cities's time around the world, you should download 'World Clock Pro' widget

4. Go to http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=36128 and download it

5. Double Click on the 'World Clock Pro.widget' to open the analog clock. Also have a look at the license.txt (thats a good practise we never follow :)

6. Now a single click on the clock opens 3 options, clicking on the + sign opens a new clock (expect a delay)

Just play around to get what you want in it...

Interesting story...

Sometime in early 2000 Arlo Rose came up with an idea for a cool little application. It would use XML to structure images, and a scriptable language, like Perl, in such a way that someone who knew the basics of Perl could put together cool little mini-applications. The goal was that these mini-applications would just sit around on your desktop looking pretty, while providing useful feedback.

All he ever really wanted was to have a cool looking battery monitor and something that told him the weather, but he knew the possibilities for something like this could potentially be limitless.

Fast forward a couple of years when Arlo began working with Perry Clarke at Sun Microsystems. Over lunch one afternoon Arlo gave Perry the basics of this dream app. Perry suggested that JavaScript would be far easier for people to digest. He was right. It's the basis for Flash's ActionScript, and Adobe's scripting engine for Photoshop. Of all the choices, JavaScript made the most sense. Shortly after that lunch, the two began to spend their nights and weekends making this thing a reality.

Look down to look what it is in my desktop...